Our own Mike Ballaban is at the wheel of a virtual reality simulator. Koenigsegg’s new development driver is standing next to him. Watch him narrate our driving (of an Aston Martin Vulcan) and, almost inevitably, our crashing.

Racing games are a great way to get close to the cars, tracks, and behavior you'd never be able to pull off in real life. But I can't help but feel like the focus usually stays on pavement-bound sports cars. What have been your favorite off-road titles on consoles, computers, and arcades over the years?

We're no stranger to driving simulators around these parts. Tradeshows bring in simulators by the boatload, but this is definitely a new twist on the old faux-driving technology. Force Dynamics is a leading manufacturer of driving simulators and has paired one of its 301 model simulators with debatably the greatest…